The Adoration of the Shepherds

1758/1760

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk, pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white gouache and white chalk on cream laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24 x 29.3 cm (9 7/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.9.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Michel, Soullié, and Masson, no. 759

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Philippe Marquis de Chennevières (Lugt 2072)(his sale, Paris, 5-6 May 1898, no. 19); Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910)(his sale, Paris, 13 May 1929, no. 18, pl. 13); The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C.; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings, NGA, Washington, D.C., and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973 - 1974, no. 67 (Regina Slatkin).

1982

  • Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 3.

2000

  • Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no cat.).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 124-125, 282, no. 53 (color).

2012

  • The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012 (no cat.).

Bibliography

1906

  • Michel, André, Louis Soullié, and Charles Masson. François Boucher. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné. Paris [1906]: no. 759.

1932

  • Jeanneret, Carlo. "L'Adoration des Bergers de François Boucher." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1932): 76.

1966

  • Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher (1703-1770). Paris, 1966: no. 628, fig. 110.

1974

  • Williams, Eunice. Review of François Boucher in North American Collections. Master Drawings 12, no. 2 (Summer 1974): 173-174.

1976

  • Ananoff, Alexandre, with Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1976, 2:144, under no. 466, fig. 1309a.

Wikidata ID

Q64569755

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